Rocky Mountain News columnist Mike Littwin sums up Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez’s past couple of weeks today, wondering if the campaign has completely imploded:
Now, people are starting to whisper – and I mean, even Republican people – that Beauprez is on the verge of becoming No Way Bob.
It may be too soon to say his campaign is imploding. It’s not to soon for volunteers to wear a hard hat when visiting headquarters.
How could this happen?
How could a political pro like Beauprez let his campaign get so far off track?
And is it any wonder that people are starting to ask if Bill Ritter is the luckiest man since Ringo? (Do you think that some of the Democrats who didn’t get in the race are having their own Beauprez regrets now?)…
…Some Republicans are saying privately they’re worried about the campaign. They’re worried about fund-raising. They’re worried about a lackluster message.
Every day it seems there’s more bad news for Beauprez. The Rocky editorial page ripped the Beauprez campaign for distorting a Ritter quote that had run – yes – on the Rocky editorial page. The Loveland Daily Reporter-Herald had a story about Beauprez criticizing the management style of Bill Owens, who is his most important supporter.
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It might look bad, but Bob is a pricipled conservative with a proven record and he can talk about cows and stuff. That’s going to swing Bob 15-points the other way between now and November because Bob is a Republican and Republicans are great and automatically win state elections, John said so, just ask Pete Coors.
Rumor has it that some conservatives, who are supporting Beauprez, are planning to run Lamborn has a write-in candidate to oppose him.
Lamborn wants both jobs…congress and the Governor’s mansion.
Let’s not forget this story from today:
http://www.rockymoun…
“Single in a district where lots of folks have kids.
Career government employee.
No business background.
Republican Bob Beauprez in a 2002 campaign mailing listed the reasons Rick O’Donnell shouldn’t be elected congressman from the 7th District.
“The last thing Congress needs is another inexperienced bureaucrat playing games with our future,” Beauprez said then, when he squared off against O’Donnell and two other Republicans in the GOP primary.
O’Donnell’s back this year, again running in the 7th District.
Beauprez said Wednesday that there’s a “dramatic” difference between O’Donnell then and now.
“He’s four years older and wiser and he’s not running against me,” Beauprez said, with a laugh.
“That makes all the difference in the world.”
The attack on O’Donnell in 2002 came late in the primary when it became clear that despite being an underfunded underdog, O’Donnell was beating Beauprez in debates and gaining ground in the race.
“He’s very, very good,” Beauprez said.
Beuprez supports attacking Republicans? Maybe he should run against him; he would fair better in the Governor’s race. Anyone is better than Beuprez. Heck, even Ed Jones would do better.
quite that bad
… that SOMEONE in our wonderful, diligent media follow up by asking Beauprez to explain EXACTLY WHERE he saw that “70 percent” statistic about African-American women?
It’s one bad thing to use a statistic from someplace else without properly vetting it.
It’s another, maybe even worse, thing to claim that you’ve read something somewhere when it’s not even printed ANYWHERE.
Is Beauprez too embarrassed to say where that so-called statistic came from? Did it come from some sort of horrible white-supremacist website? If so, that would surely spell the end of the Beauprez campaign.
Looking forward to an explanation from the Beauprez campaign.
Not that’s wishing for something. Heck, the man still hasn’t explained half of what he has said already. Not to mention what Marshall has attempted to explain for him.
It just his way. Say something because your arrogant, your a Congressman, and how dare anyone in the world question what he says. The data doesn’t exist, he said it because he has this flippant attitude that God died and put him in charge.
After all, just look at the tons of crap he has gotteen away with both before his rise in the Republican Party, during his chairmanship, and now. The same clown that asked people to support the “Gun Show” Loophol;e legislation is now touting a 100% vooting record withj the NRA. One lousy vote!!! PPPPPLlllllleeeeaaaasssseeee!!!
One that asks BWB to explain comments he made. And keep it totally limited to clear questions he left hanging so it isn’t viewed as an attack – just questions.
Something like that would almost force the reports to start asking him to explain himself.
So Beauprez went both ways on Amendment 22 as well? WOW, a true defender of gun owners’ rights, except when he isn’t!
Owens signed the Amend.22 petition first and Beauprez second.
And when Ari Armstrong asked him where he got his statistics, he replied “In my head”.
That’s one reason the Pike’s Peak Firearms Coalition didn’t endorse him. Also on his questionaire he said that he wouldn’t support getting rid of any gun laws in Colorado.
Littwin is a hack! Needs to come out of his “Bill Ritter is the luckiest man since Ringo” echo chamber.
Blockheaded, idiotic articles like this one represent a slew of fouls at the end of the game. “Hack up the guy and make him go to the line.” Problem for Littwin and his ilk is, Beauprez can hit his free-throws. And he’ll win the championship.
I mean, so what if Beauprez screws up at every turn, has no money, and lags in all the polls? Beauprez is a really great guy and he’s going to win because of the voter registration edge, just like Coors.
….NOT!
Not a good argument to shoot character attacks at Litwin, while claiming Beauprez can hit free throws. Sure, he can hit the easy shots, like claiming to be tough on illegal immigration to a group like Defend Colorado Now, but his record (or the money ball) where it counts shows quite the opposite.
He’s in Congress and has done nothing to help this state. He’s another rubber-stamping conservative with no agenda other getting elected to help out his friends (banks, oil, booze and insurance).
The real hack has become blatantly evident in the past few months.
Jezz guys, when the mainstream media picks up on it, it’s time to move on. Beating up on Bob has lost appeal, has become sort of a cliche. They’ll lock him up in D.C. next month. I just checked: 68degrees past midnight and 84% humidity. I think we ought to let the farm boy come home. No one should have to live in that hole. No wonder he seems bewildered. Plus have you had any dealings with the Fed employees back there… Ugh.